[newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread teguh
Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What does it mean? and how to fix it? 2. And on the taskbar (at the bottom

Re: [newbie] Archives

2005-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 Jan 2005 23:09, Noel McG. wrote: I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please. Thanks. Yes - many times. That's why we created the TWiki. You should read

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread JR
On Saturday 29 January 2005 04:40 am, teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What does it mean? and

[newbie] If you have joined us recently -

2005-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You really should read Eric's weekly Welcome letter. It is designed to help you find answers to your problems. The Community TWiki originated from the recognition that we answered the same questions over and over again. It gets annoying when

Re: [newbie] Evolution fails to install

2005-01-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 29 January 2005 03:11, Andy Yankovich wrote: Trying to install Evloution, unable to install: Due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11 Is there something I can do to solve this? Thanks, Andy In a terminal the command urpmf libgnutls will identify which packages contain files with that

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 09:40, teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the

[newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-29 Thread Keith Powell
Some weeks ago, there was a long thread on problems with upgrading KDE using the Thac packages. Since then, I have not seen anything about it. Have the problems been sorted, and can we now upgrade KDE? Many thanks for any information. Keith

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:56, John Retermeyer wrote: It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe

Re: [newbie] Program to search the Internet for torrents

2005-01-29 Thread Ian
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 15:46, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to search the Internet for torrents. Is there such a thing for Linux? The isohunt site works with all browsers http://www.isohunt.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Julie Sloan
teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What does it mean? and how to fix it? If you are connecting with a

Re: [newbie] Archives

2005-01-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:23:55 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 00:09, Noel McG. wrote: I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please.

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Saturday 29 January 2005 19:06, Julie Sloan wrote: teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What

Re: [newbie] Program to search the Internet for torrents

2005-01-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:22:09 +, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a program to search the Internet for torrents. Is there such a thing for Linux? The isohunt site works with all browsers http://www.isohunt.com/ Thanks, Ian. I did not know about isohunt. It looks like a

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Julie Sloan
Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 19:06, Julie Sloan wrote: If you are connecting with a modem rather than LAN then you don't use the eth0. I *think* eth0 referes to LAN. If you are connected despite the FAILED, then you don't need the eth0 to start at boot. Hi, eth0 is your

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 29 January 2005 12:11 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 19:06, Julie Sloan wrote: If you are connecting with a modem rather than LAN then you don't use the eth0. I *think* eth0 referes to LAN. If you are connected despite the FAILED, then

Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???

2005-01-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Julie Sloan wrote: Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 19:06, Julie Sloan wrote: If you are connecting with a modem rather than LAN then you don't use the eth0. I *think* eth0 referes to LAN. If you are connected despite the FAILED, then you don't need the eth0 to start at boot. Hi,

[newbie] /dev/dsp gone??

2005-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
I am running the 10.2b1 and after rebooting I have no sound, although sound was working fine on the first boot up. I don't see any /dev/dsp for some reason. How do I recreate that file, or what do I need to do to get sound back? Want to buy

[newbie] j2re-1_4_1_01 where to get it?

2005-01-29 Thread black starfish
I keep getting 1.5 and it always crashes my browsres Graham Watkins wrote: Dave Needham wrote: hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. This may help (quoted from the readme file

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-29 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:33 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:41 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp gone??

2005-01-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 29 January 2005 03:42 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: I am running the 10.2b1 and after rebooting I have no sound, although sound was working fine on the first boot up. I don't see any /dev/dsp for some reason. How do I recreate that file, or what do I need to do to get sound back?

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp gone??

2005-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 29 2005 03:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 03:42 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: I am running the 10.2b1 and after rebooting I have no sound, although sound was working fine on the first boot up. I don't see any /dev/dsp for some reason. How do I recreate that

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-29 Thread Simon
On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 23:03, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:33 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:41 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
OPSSS!! Thank you very much. Also someone else told me to add the noapic command in the lilo.conf file Like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent Now it works, thank you

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread njcross
I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 29 January 2005 04:55 pm, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? log on in failsafe mode (text only) Nev

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev If the machine boots to the GUI login, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1. You can log in as root there, and

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:55, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev If you're using the graphical login, you can always hit

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:55 am, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev At the lilo boot screen, press the Escape or Esc key. It

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was able to get in as root at the command prompt. Then ls'd the root directory and rm'd loads of files. Thankfully it worked after I had rm'd about 30 files! Serves me right playing around with ardour.It can create large snd files. I had to rm file by file and the permissions wouldn't allow me

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread frengoGorgia
Il dom, 2005-01-30 alle 05:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: One last question: where can I find out about the Live CDs? That seems to be the safest bet. The king of the liveCDs : KNOPPIX , debian based linux http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html second choice go to mandrakeMove ,

Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde

2005-01-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 00:55, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? I know you were